linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] zram: charge the compressed RAM to the page's memcgroup

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Message-ID: <CA+PVUaS5FhNksVUL-7+Ts6qyEd=tCV8e_2ig7pLwZa8hvhzwHg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:14:41 +0200
From:   Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch@...hat.com>
To:     贺中坤 <hezhongkun.hzk@...edance.com>
Cc:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, minchan@...nel.org,
        senozhatsky@...omium.org, mhocko@...e.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] zram: charge the compressed RAM to
 the page's memcgroup

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM 贺中坤 <hezhongkun.hzk@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> > While looking at this in the past weeks, I believe that there are two distinct problems:
> > 1. Direct zram usage by process within a cg ie. a process writing to a zram device
> > 2. Indirect zram usage by a process within a cg via swap (described above)
> >
> > Both of them probably require different solutions.
> > In order to fix #1, accounting a zram device should be accounted towards a cgroup. IMHO this is something that should be fixed.
> >
> > Yu Zhao and Yosry are probably much more familiar with the solution to #2.
> > WRT per-cgrou-swapfile, to me this is addressing #2, but I agree with Yu Zhao, that there are probably better solutions to this.
> >
> > Lastly, this patchset, while it will possibly not address the swap issue (#2) completely, is it satisfying the needs of #1?
> >
> > - fabian
>
> Thanks for your reply, fabian. According to the previous design and
> test results, this patchset can meet the need of  direct and
> indirect usage scenarios，charge the compressed memory to memory cgroup.

As said, I can not speak about the indirect swap case, but if it is
addressing the direct case, and putting the memory accounting on the
cgroup - then this would address one of the use-cases I have in mind.
Thanks!

- fabian